I've built a FreeBSD system (5.3.RELEASE) to use as a dedicated SlimServer (release 6.0.2), and it's working very well when playing MP3, FLAC and WAV (ie. all the native formats). But I'm a bit stuck when it comes to on-the-fly decoding. My music library is currently in Ogg Vorbis, and it won't play. It seems fairly obvious that it needs oggdec, but I don't appear to have that. I built and installed the libogg and libvorbis ports in the hope that oggdec would be included, but it wasn't. Nor can I find it on the FreeBSD website. Anyone know where I can get hold of oggdec for FreeBSD?

Dan Sully

2005-05-05, 11:17

* cliveb shaped the electrons to say...

>I've built a FreeBSD system (5.3.RELEASE) to use as a dedicated
>SlimServer (release 6.0.2), and it's working very well when playing
>MP3, FLAC and WAV (ie. all the native formats). But I'm a bit stuck
>when it comes to on-the-fly decoding. My music library is currently in
>Ogg Vorbis, and it won't play. It seems fairly obvious that it needs
>oggdec, but I don't appear to have that. I built and installed the
>libogg and libvorbis ports in the hope that oggdec would be included,
>but it wasn't. Nor can I find it on the FreeBSD website. Anyone know
>where I can get hold of oggdec for FreeBSD?

SlimServer 6.0 uses "sox" linked with the vorbis libraries to play Ogg.

-D
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cliveb

2005-05-06, 11:06

SlimServer 6.0 uses "sox" linked with the vorbis libraries to play Ogg.
Thanks very much. It's now playing my Ogg files nice and smoothly. I had to fiddle around a bit in convert.conf to find the right parameters, but I got there in the end (hence the slight delay in sending this follow-up).